Why the Asia-Pacific?
The Asia-Pacific region remains the most unrepresented one in the Rome Statute system. Even though the region is home to approximately 60% of the world’s population, only 19 out of 55 Asia-Pacific countries are represented in this membership. Moreover, this translates into only one of the ten Member States of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) - Cambodia - being Party to the Rome Statute. The Philippines is the second country to have withdrawn from the Rome Statute on 17 March 2019.
